Today’s Motto: ‘Being willing is not enough; we must do’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day,  June 11……….

1700 – Australia was discovered by Captain James Cook.

1866 – The Agra High Court (now the Allahabad High Court) is established.

1889 – A folding chair was patented by black American inventors John E. Purdy and James R. Sadgwar of Washington.

1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

1928 – The world’s first rocket-propelled aircraft flight was made over the Rhon Mountains, Germany. It was a tailless glider with two solid-fuel rockets, pioneered and developed by Alexander Martin Lippisch.

1946 – Viceroy interviewed Gandhi Ji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.

1975 – Harvard professor Michael McElroy and other scientists concerned about atmospheric ozone depletion proclaim their support for banning chlorofluorocarbons as a propellant in spray cans. (The U.S. government implemented the prohibition three years later.)

1976 – Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev sign the Moscow Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation.

1990 – US Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional.

1998 – Scientists deciphered the last of the genetic material of bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

1999 – India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.

2011 – In Rome, Italy, over 500,000 people demonstrate, demanding same-sex rights.

2012 – The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital.

Born….

1947 – Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar politician, Chief Minister  and former Railway Minister.

1990 – Seema Singh. Bhijpuri model, actor, dancer knownas Helen or Item queen. Acted in over 500 films and won several awards in film and TV. (pic credit-ABP News)

RIP….

1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business industry, and nationalist. Purchased The Hiondustan Times from original owner Sardar Sunder Singh Lyallpuri (1924), an Akali Movement leader under supervision of Madan Mohan Malviya and Gandhiji,  KM Pannikar and Devdas Gandhi were later Editors of the newspaper group, now called HT Media.

2000 – Rajesh Pilot. A friend  of Rajiv Gandhi. Squadron Leader in Indian Air Force  who took premature retirement to join politics. Congress (I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa.

You may have known….

Thomas A Edison proposed to his wife in Morse Code.

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